''Aphomia fuscolimbellus'' is a species of

snout moth The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older) classifications, the grass moths (Crambidae) are included in the Pyralida ...

in the genus ''

Aphomia ''Aphomia'' is a genus of small moths belonging to the family Pyralidae. Some breed in the nests of Anthophila (bees and bumblebees), where their caterpillars are parasitic feeders of wax, honey and pollen Pollen is a powdery substance prod ...

''. It was described by Ragonot in 1887. It seems to be described from North America, but the origin of the species is unknown.

Taxonomy

M. Alma Solis and M. A. Metz dispute that ''A. fuscolimbella'', as described by Ragonot, belongs in the ''Aphomia'' genus. Their conclusion is based on morphological analysis, as well as the fact that other ''Aphomia'' species have not been found in the Western Hemisphere. They have not proposed an alternate placement.

References

Moths described in 1898 Tirathabini Moths of North America {{Galleriinae-stub